2019

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Jo Beall

welcome, welcome to day 58 of a season of peace, this day of mercury going direct although i’m not feeling it yet, a day calling for patience…

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take heart, pilgrim!

you were born for this:

to leap into the void and wonder how to sprout wings and fly…

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as i write tonight, i am tender so i shall let Pema’s words on the deepening interior journey we are all traversing speak for me…

On the journey of the bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward turbulence and doubt however we can. We explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, we let it be as it is. At our own pace, without speed or aggression, we move down and down and down. With us move millions of others, our companions in awakening from fear. At the bottom we discover water, the healing water of bodhichitta. Bodhichitta is our heart—our wounded, softened heart. Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die. This love is bodhichitta. It is gentle and warm; it is clear and sharp; it is open and spacious. The awakened heart of bodhichitta is the basic goodness of all beings.

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yes, take heart..

shanti, shanti, shantihi…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 101 – 3/27/2019

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Jo Beall

welcome, welcome to day 57 of a season of peace, a day of leaping into the void of oceanic being trusting in the soul to flow in concert with the magnetic waves of spaciousness…

re-membering how as a wee child, i was instructed in the wisdom of pausing when things are getting overwhelming… years later i would hear of the wisdom of incorporating this practice of pausing throughout the day according to our ultradian healing rhythm cycling throughout our body every ninety minutes or so… honoring this cycle sustains the natural healing program of our body temples…

so right now, in this moment, let’s tune in together to the transformational frequency of loving presence and experience one of the most important actions we can do this moment, this day, this life…

Pause

Breathe

Rest in the Gap

Slow Down

Relax

Witness the Beauty

Listen

Bless this Space

may we all find the courage to leap into the void, into the spaciousness of ttmeless grace, the stillpoint of creation where there’s only the dance of gossamer threads of rainbow light…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 100 – 3/26/2019

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Jo Beall

welcome, welcome to day 56 of a season of peace and day 100 of this sixth turn around the sun on the poetic peace pilgrimage, a day like so many others when I AM awed by seeing the words that flowed on this very day back in 2014 as i gazed into this setting sun, a practice that daily i’d been keeping for eight months, these words resonate even more deeply five turns around the sun later, singing in all the cells of the ever expanding toric field of loving presence…

100 Days!

On this journey, I AM being present in a deeper way…

each breath through our one heart a gift

each step on earth mother a kiss

each communion with sun a celebration

each reunion with moon a dance

each moment being in flow

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On this road less traveled, I AM trusting more profoundly…

listening to the whispers from our one heart

aligning with cosmic wisdom

flowing in beauty all around

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On this pilgrimage home, I AM surrendering more completely…

re-membering we are love and that’s all that there is

living from the heart in thought word and deed

real-eye-sing we are rainbow clouds

flowing into great mystery

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thousandfold thanks for this wondrous day and for all relatives’ dancing and singing the way… our one heart beams radiantly…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 99 – 3/25/2019

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Jo Beall

welcome, welcome to day 55 of a season of peace and day 99 of this sixth turn around the sun on the poetic peace pilgrimage…

falling in love with paths and pilgrimages as a child, i loved the annual spring ritual of watching The Wizard of Oz and dancing merrily down the yellow brick road with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion… march winds and turbulent energy flows are taking me back to the whirlwind that began the journey of awakening for Dorothy, for me, for you…

in the midst of the tornado, everything known and stable is deconstructed to be built anew and so we must start fresh with a child’s vision of wonder and trust as we travel the yellow brick road, the golden path, the SHERO Journey to SELF™ where we re-member, like Dorothy, that we had the power all along, we are the power, we always have the ability to come home, we are always home…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 98 – 3/24/2019

Posted on March 24, 2019 by Jo Beall

welcome, welcome to day 54 of a season of peace, to the third day of loving presence re-treat, a day of savoring the quintessence, the essence of essence… love, sweet love and to the day each week we honor the astonishing light of our being…

on this first year anniversary of the historic and epic March for Our Lives and the nine days anniversary of both the monumental Climate Change Rally and the New Zealand massacre at a time when we are called collectively to both midwife the dark night of the soul, the metaphorical descent down the narrow gate of the birth canal, and the rebirth of heart consciousness, it feels the moment to celebrate our standing in love for love…

we belong to each other… there is only one of us here with each cell of the one body woven together in a design so perfect, a peace beyond our human understanding leading us to the critical question of how we serve the good of the whole for all our relatives…

thanks be for leaders like New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, at 38 the youngest female head of state, who said in response to the horrific tragedy in her country: “Many of those who will have been directly affected by this shooting may be migrants to New Zealand, they may even be refugees here. They have chosen to make New Zealand their home, and it is their home. They are us… We are a nation of 200 ethnicities, 160 languages…We open our doors to others and say, ‘Welcome’… We wish for every member of our communities to also feel safe. Safety means being free from the fear of violence. But it also means being free from the fear of those sentiments of racism and hate that create a place where violence can flourish. And every single one of us has the power to change that.”

may peace be upon all of us, shanti shanti shantihi…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 97 – 3/23/2019

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Jo Beall

welcome, welcome to day 53 of a season of peace and to the second day of loving presence re-treat, a day of savoring the quintessence, the essence of essence… love, sweet love… as i float in the spaciousness of the stillpoint, i re-member a poem that it is said that Charlie Chaplin read on his seventieth birthday in 1959, many years later Kim McKillen wrote a book with these words… whether the words are only Kim’s or both of theirs and many other people’s, the poem is so beautiful, so filled with wisdom and exactly the right medicine to sing my heat home dancing along the rainbow trail…

As I Began to Love Myself

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”.

As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody if I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me. Today I call it “RESPECT”.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it “MATURITY”.

As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm. Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE”.

As I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. Today I call it “SIMPLICITY”.

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF”.

As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since I was wrong less of the time. Today I discovered that is “MODESTY”.

As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worrying about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where everything is happening. Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT”.

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”.

We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born. Today I know “THAT IS LIFE”!

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may we real-eyes as we come home, we are always being led…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 96 – 3/22/2019

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Jo Beall

welcome, welcome to day 52 of a season of peace which synchronisticly falls on world water day and even more synchronisticly, the day source calls me to re-treat into the stillpoint of creation and swim in the timeless zone’s waters of life womb… as i take a break in the 11th hour to leap out of the deep waters, let’s take this moment, this breath to celebrate water…

UN World Water Day on March 22 is a part of a worldwide mission to ensure everyone has access to safe drinking water. Right now, many of the world’s poorest do not have access to one of our most valuable natural resources.

In many areas around the world taps, pipes and wells simply don’t exist and if they do they’re not affordable for many people. It means drinking dirty water is the only option with dirty water being responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.

We, like all other bodies of water, can change course and follow a sustainable direction by first believing we can and next acting on the belief with action by loving our waters for they are our mother, our ancestors and are the web weaving all our relatives into an amazing tapestry. We have a duty of care to protect and nurture our grandmothers and grandfathers and mothers and fathers who give us life.

May we all envision and answer the urgent call to action for a world where everyone drinks safe water instead of the present figure of only.01% is potable. Here’s a first step whenever using this sacred elixir…

Prayer When Drinking Water

As I receive this water and it flows through me,
May it become medicine dispelling all ills,
May it become medicine revealing the wisdom within and through out.
I offer apology for any harm done through wrong speech & action

As this water flows through me and becomes vapor,
May it purify the atmosphere
May it nourish the wisdom potential in the people
I offer apology for any harm done through wrong speech & action

As this water flows through me, and returns to the water table
May it remove the impurities of chemicals placed within the water
May the water be made new again
May this water become medicine for all beings in this and all worlds

~ Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo ~

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We Are The Eternal Radiance

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 95 – 3/21/2019

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Jo Beall

welcome, welcome to day 51 of a season of peace and to the eve of World water day…. although tomorrow we celebrate day of honoring and blessing water, everyday is truly a blessing water day, water is the innernet connecting us all, the more blessings of peace, love and harmony we pour into water, the more peaceful, loving and harmonious life is… thousandfold thanks for our joining hands across the cosmos in sacred honoring… thousandfold thanks, water, for giving us life and blessing our earth walks… standing before you, we re-member we are water, we are the ocean in a drop… may our one heart be purified more than ever before for the benefit of all as we drink you into our being and as water reciprocates in the next breath by blessing us and generously bestowing pure water spirits throughout the web of life… water is a mirror for us as well as perfectly mirroring us… water responds in perfect harmony to the messages we send; the more beautiful our transmission, the more beautifully water creates all that is..

In Praise of Water

Let us bless the grace of water:

The imagination of the primeval ocean
Where the first forms of life stirred
And emerged to dress the vacant earth
With warm quilts of color.

The well whose liquid root worked
Through the long night of clay,
Trusting ahead of itself openings
That would yet yield to its yearning
Until at last it arises in the desire of light
To discover the pure quiver of itself
Flowing crystal clear and free
Through delighted emptiness.

The courage of a river to continue belief
In the slow fall of ground,
Always falling farther
Toward the unseen ocean.

The river does what words would love,
Keeping its appearance
By insisting on disappearance;
Its only life surrendered
To the event of pilgrimage,
Carrying the origin to the end.

Seldom pushing or straining,
Keeping itself to itself
Everywhere all along its flow…

Let us bless the humility of water,
Always willing to take the shape
Of whatever otherness holds it,

The buoyancy of water
Stronger than the deadening,
Downward drag of gravity,
The innocence of water,
Flowing forth, without thought
Of what awaits it,
The refreshment of water,
Dissolving the crystals of thirst.

Water: voice of grief,
Cry of love,
In the flowing tear.

Water: vehicle and idiom
Of all the inner voyaging
That keeps us alive.

Blessed be water,
Our first mother.

we are all rainclouds…

mni wiconi

water is life

blessed be!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 94 – 3/20/2019

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Jo Beall

welcome, welcome to day 50 of a season of peace, a day of cosmic harmony, how i love this day of sacred pause, this profound portal of equinox amplified with the super full moon of libra the moon of balance, of venusian love… are you feeling the serpentine energies rising from the earth to marry the soular rays flowing down from the skies activating the creation of the cosmic egg as the sun moves into aries and the new astrological year?

awakening today with a smile, i re-member awakening the same way a quintessence of years ago and a quaternity of years ago , i received the dream of going into the wasteland to annoint with holy water which led to a pilgrimage to gather holy water from the heart chakra of the planet and today i see that once again i’ll shortly be embarking on a pilgrimage, virtual this time to be followed a quintessence of moons later with a walking pilgrimage of peace along the camino of St Francis…

so much to breathe in this moment and breathe out with a deep sigh of ah, of awe… yes! the whole world is in balance today as we celebrate the festival of the sun, the day we all receive the same amount of sun externally and internally… on this day of the earth’s poles being in balance and light piercing through both hemispheres, we are able to see through dimensional veils… seeing the world through eyes of balance, she sings a song of harmony on this first day of the new astrological turn around the sun…

yes! i love this day of balance, such happiness flows like a bubbling brook which reminds me that in addition to being equinox, today is also the International Day of Happiness as decreed by the United Nations… and, it’s the first day of fall for southern hemisphereians and spring for those in the north…

may we be filled with the energies of balance and harmony radiating from this libra super full moon on this high holy day of equinox, of sacred pause with every breath being a blessingway, a blessingway of deepening balance, a flowing with the waters of life in harmony revealing every moment as sacred in our cosmic heart of love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 93 – 3/19/2019

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Jo Beall

Let there be Peace
Let there be Peace of Mind
Let there be Peace with Mankind
Let there be Peace of the States
Let the World dwell within the Force of Peace

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welcome, welcome to day 49 of a season of peace, the eve of the equinox and super full moon in libra, a day when i find myself chanting let there be peace and ho’opono pono while breathing in I Am Grace of Beloved and generating loving presence …

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listening to motherwaters’ song seeding fields of love the whole day long,

Oya weaves spiraling webs of light

while whirling, swirling winds cut through rainbow mists

spirits dance wildly in the underground

swimming braided waters of uncharted earthscape

rhythmically returning to original source,

in cosmic womb where we re-member…

birthing, surrendering to transforming whirlwind

breathing, re-birthing harmony again

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may every breath be a blessingway, a blessingway of deepening balance, a flowing with the waters of life in harmony revealing every moment as sacred…

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namaste’

Abundance Created Together (ACT)

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke –